Patrick Leahy

I encourage the State Department to seize every opportunity to strengthen the hand of the democratic opposition in the run up to these polls.

It is clear that additional sanctions against the junta in Rangoon are warranted, and I intend to introduce legislation to this effect in the very near future.

I can understand the concerns of the Senator from Louisiana and the Senator from New Mexico. I join the chairman of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee in his view that the State Department should continue to carry out ATAP courses at…

I just want it for terrorism. I am worried about terrorism.

So your answer is no to look at it.

We are in a two-front war in one sense. One is war in Iraq.

The Administration has decided to ask for $8 billion of assistance to foreign nations that it considers helpful in the war against Iraq.

Having requested all this money, billions of dollars for coalition partners, we have only $2 billion for first responders here.

Well, last year, nothing was requested. Senator McConnell and I found money and put it in.

Should there not be something in the supplemental if you have all of these hundreds of thousands of displaced Afghans?

I looked at some of the pictures of United States aid, food, and what-not, arriving in Southern Iraq.

I know you are committed, the President is committed, General Myers, and everybody else is committed to getting aid there.

The question is, how much, when, and why?

Are you coming back in the weeks and months ahead for more fiscal year 2003 money?

If the Senator would read the whole quote in context, I am happy to answer any questions he has. If he is unwilling--

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will submit--I am sure the Governor will expect this--follow-up questions on this.

The Omnibus Mercury Emissions Reduction Act, to control mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants and other sources.

Please let us know, because there are a lot of apprehensive Vermonters.

I see a serious risk to pregnant women and children from mercury exposure.

I am always interested in what you find out on anthrax and such issues.

I am afraid that the balance, the balance that has come up over the years, may come unglued.

I wish we could get the document issued.

I am afraid that objectivity may be diminished and that would create a real problem for us and our own debates up here.

It is said that you have one of the most difficult jobs in Washington and I am sure there are days you believe that.

Under your leadership, EPA has been very responsive to my office and I appreciate that.